Quotes About Knowledge

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Your fragments of knowledge will lead to competence. Your competence will lead to fluency. Your fluency will intensify to higher and higher levels of fluency. The best attitude, however, is that your attempt to master the foreign language, should remain perpetually unfinished business. You'll succeed if you make sure you never go to bed knowing no more of your target language than you did when you woke up!

None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.

The mind is a miser," he said. "Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

Ich war fünf. Mit fünf weiß man nicht, was man zu erwarten hat. Man weiß auch mit zwölf nicht, was man zu erwarten hat. Vielleicht weiß man nie, was man zu erwarten hat.

Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.

I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.

That you I feel up in my brain, trying to rummage around inside my head, rearrange the furniture? I don't think that'll work. I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know.

In our attempt to make education "fun," we have neglected the academic disciplines that develop sound minds and are conducive to sound characters.

We have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation, and to so train the minds of the new generation as to make them capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problem of its own day.

If in one's life a man can but find one truth, and pass it on to those who come after him, he has done well. But

The good news is you don't need to be brilliant to be wise. The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough.

Dismissing without further investigation something that conflicts with what is already known is the very heart of rationality.

And he said, "It is not that Eleazar knows more Torah than I do but that he is descended from greater men than I am. Happy is the person whose ancestors have gained merit for him. Happy is the person who has a 'peg' on which to hang.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

The soul of man is nourished by learning, as the body is by food.

yo he oído decir a muchos seglares españoles de muchos años acá e muchas veces, no pudiendo negar la bondad que en ellos veen: "cierto, estas gentes eran las más bienaventuradas del mundo, si solamente conoscieran a Dios".

The ancient poet Philostratus said, "For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.